Security Analyst 4
Oracle
SaaS Cloud Security
Principal Security Analyst, Incident Response
*UK Citizenship Required
Are you interested in securing a large-scale distributed SaaS environment? Oracle's SaaS Cloud Security team is building new technologies that operate at high scale in our broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. The SaaS Cloud Security team plays a key role in enabling Oracle's Security vision, minimizing security incident-based losses and disruptions, facilitating efficient recovery from such incidents, and ensuring the implementation of controls to mitigate associated risk.
SaaS Cloud Security is looking for seasoned security analysts within the UK to join our efforts in reshaping the cloud services landscape across industry verticals and solve difficult problems by designing and building innovative new systems to revolutionize the security of Oracle's SaaS portfolio of products.
The SaaS Cloud Security organization is responsible for securing enterprise-grade software services on behalf of our 25,000 customers, processing over 60 billion transactions per day.
We are building a global team of analysts that can work autonomously to carry out activities in the area of Incident Response to protect Oracle’s SaaS environments. The team collectively covers the breadth and depth of: monitoring for Indicators of Compromise, being up to date with the latest third-party Threat Intelligence, responding to identified incidents including remediation, evidence collection and forensics. The team will also support the continual improvement of processes and technology used for maximizing automation of detection and response for SaaS.
Career Level - IC4
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SaaS Cloud Security seeks UK analyst to monitor, respond, and automate threat protection for Oracle SaaS customers
Career Level - IC4
Key Responsibilities
• Serve as “Incident Commander” during security events. Driving the event to resolution.
• Perform hands-on activities including network and host based log analysis, malware analysis and threat hunting.
• Assist with the development of processes and procedures to improve security operations functions, incident response times, analysis of incidents, and overall SOC functions.
• Develop scripts, processes and content to improve and automate response capabilities.
• Research industry trends, identify ongoing security threats, analyze new security testing tools, and provide recommendations on the need and usefulness of services and/or products.
• Evaluate and recommend new and emerging security solutions and technologies to issues.
• Effectively communicate security concepts with both technical and non-technical individuals.
• Provide information regarding intrusion events, security incidents, and other threat indications and warning information to teams and leadership as part of incident response.
• Deliver self-service security metric data of discovery, triage and trending analysis of team findings.
• Author security event reports for executive leadership following an intrusion or red team engagement.
• Participate in planning, designing, and executing tabletop exercises cross-functionally across Oracle for SaaS security incident planning.
• Help define Threat Hunting use cases.
• Participate in Red/Blue team activities.
Required Qualifications
• 4+ years of related cybersecurity operations, architecture, engineering, SOC work experience (monitoring, incident response, forensics).
• Strong understanding of typical intrusion life cycle, including privilege escalation, persistence, and lateral movement techniques.
• Strong understanding of host and network Incident Response processes, tasks, tools, and industry operational best practices.
• Understanding of MITRE ATT&CKTM knowledge base.
• Strong and hands-on forensics experience/knowledge on Linux and Windows Operating Systems.
• Coding and automation experience preferred
• Experience with problem solving and troubleshooting complex issues with an emphasis on root cause analysis.
• Understanding Application security architectures e.g. OWASP top 10 web application security risks, database security, authentication schemes.
• Ability to both work independently with minimal direction and to collaborate effectively with local and remote teams with a strong customer focus.
• Excellent written and verbal communications, including presentation skills, are important to be successful in this role.
• Proven ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization, as well as with external parties.
Preferred Qualifications
• 2+ years of experience as a Incident Response or DFIR Analyst.
• Strong Bash, Python, and automation experience preferred
• 4-8+ years of experience within security operations at a large cloud or Internet software company.
Ideal candidate should possess at least two of the following certifications:
• SANS GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI)
• SANS GIAC Network Forensic Analyst (GNFA)
• SANS GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)
• SANS GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE)
• SANS GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
• SANS GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)
• SANS GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM)
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)